America did not tell the millions of men and women who came from every country in the world and who - with their hands, their intelligence and their heart - built the greatest nation in the world: "Come, and everything will be given to you." She said: "Come, and the only limits to what you'll be able to achieve will be your own courage and your own talent."

Nicolas Sarkozy

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What made America great was her ability to transform her own dream into hope for all mankind.

Nicolas Sarkozy

made dream america

If you come to France and you wear a veil, if you go to one of the administrative buildings, then that's not acceptable. If you don't want your wife to be examined by a male doctor, then you're not welcome here. France is a country that's open.

Nicolas Sarkozy

doctors wife country

Come, and the only limits to what you'll be able to achieve will be your own courage and your own talent.

Nicolas Sarkozy

talent able limits

We must defend freedom of expression and if I had to chose, I prefer the excess of caricature over the excess of censure.

Nicolas Sarkozy

caricatures excess expression

I love life too much to be bitter.

Nicolas Sarkozy

bitter love-life too-much

The goal is to meet the challenge of racial interbreeding.

Nicolas Sarkozy

genocide goal challenges

What is dangerous is not minarets, but basements and garages that hide clandestine places of worship. Thus we must choose between mosques, where we know that the rules of the republic are respected, and secret places where extremism has been developing for too long,.

Nicolas Sarkozy

secret-places long religion

We live in a world where people don't all have the same scruples, where all blows can be given, and where, in order to down somebody, all means can be used. Nothing will lead me astray from the path that I have chosen.

Nicolas Sarkozy

blow order mean

If living in France bothers some people, they should feel free to leave the country.

Nicolas Sarkozy

france country people

In a presidential campaign, you can't lie. You can't hide what you are and what you want. You can't hide what kind of President you'll be. You can't keep on talking about nothing indefinitely and committing to nothing, you can't keep running away from debate, masking the challenges.

Nicolas Sarkozy

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Laissez-faire is finished. The all-powerful market that always knows best is finished.

Nicolas Sarkozy

laissez-faire-capitalism powerful knows

Europe is not a choice, it is a necessity, but it needs to be rethought, refounded.

Nicolas Sarkozy

choices europe needs

I cannot bear Netanyahu, he’s a liar.

Nicolas Sarkozy

bears liars

We are all hoping that he will recover his legendary vitality as quickly as possible, ... Chi-rac! Chi-rac!

Nicolas Sarkozy

legendary vitality

Nothing is more destructive than the gap between people's perceptions of their own day-to-day economic well-being and what politicians and statisticians are telling them about the economy

Nicolas Sarkozy

gaps perception people

France is the country with the highest taxes in Europe along with Sweden...something of which I am not proud.

Nicolas Sarkozy

sweden europe country

With the world in turmoil and doubt, the American people, faithful to the values that have always defined America's identity, have expressed with force their faith in progress and the future. At a time when we must face huge challenges together, your election has raised enormous hope in France, in Europe and beyond.

Nicolas Sarkozy

europe america people

Canadians are friends and Quebecers are my family. What France knows deep down is that within this great Canadian people, there is a Quebec nation. I do not see how proving my family, brotherly love for Quebec should be strengthened by defying Canada.

Nicolas Sarkozy

canada france people

Each time there is a news story, sometimes that gives ideas to people who then turn into criminals.

Nicolas Sarkozy

news-stories people ideas

Nothing - I mean nothing - and no-one - I mean no-one - will stop me going through to the end, and trying to be ready for the challenge of 2007.

Nicolas Sarkozy

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